Matching books with learners

Charlotte's Web y E.B. White is about a pig and his friendship with a spider. The pig is getting ready to get slaughtered by his farmer, but the spider writes messages in her web trying to get the farmer to let him live. This book is very popular and most people have at least watched the movie, if they haven't read the book. This book is typically for younger students, but I remember reading it and watching the movie as a young kid and I would get really upset about it. I then wouldn't watch it again until I was a little bit older, to realize it was just a movie. Although it can be sad, it does show children what can really happen and a lot of children do enjoy this book. It is one of those books that will never get old and forever be popular. 

"It's Raining Pigs and Noodles" by Jack Prelutsky This is a fun book the students will love. This book has a lot of poems for kids that include puns and rhymes. There are more than 100 poems in this book so you could even read a new poem each day in class. The poems are all about different things too like people and animals that really will keep the children entertained. 

POP! The Invention of Bubble Gum by Meghan McCarthy  This is a great Nonfiction book for kids. I think it would be good for 1st and 2nd graders. The students will love this book. It has interesting pictures on each picture about bubble gum, and facts about the history of how bubble gum was invented. You could really do a lot with this book. You could bring it different kinds of gum (flavors), you could bring in different bubble gum flavored things. Such as ice cream, cotton candy, suckers, etc. This is something that will get the children's attention, while also learning some history about it.